pallas_athena

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by pallas_athena 3y ago
>The whole point of publishing an idea or art piece is to influence people One of the topics constantly running in my mind is Alan Moore saying that writing a comic, novel, movie, is an act of magic. You write, or say, something. Other p
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'I should not have written 'A Clockwork Orange''(english.elpais.com)
112 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|156 comments
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Germany tests 4-day workweek amid labor shortage(dw.com)
31 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|79 comments
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A Neural Networks Approach to [...] Ask Barry C. To the Junior Prom Back in 1997(arxiv.org)
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
If anyone wants to discuss the LOST finale, I'm here for it. Let's start with the obvious: They were not dead since the plane crash. Basically every mystery was explained. JJ Abrams only had input for the Pilot and very little aft
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Not me getting tear-eyed because I fondly remember Opera Mini as my first mobile browser on Symbian
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leo...
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
>that not one of the attendees used the word "deportation" >that not one of the attendees talked about "deporting citizens" semantics. "remigration" means the same thing.
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Decipherment of Old Persian(heritageinstitute.com)
12 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|4 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
I guess "The Bear" 80€ white t-shirt: https://merzbschwanen.com/blog/blog-good-news-1/merz-b-schwa...
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Conditioning you to love Datadog, brilliant
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The Lava Lamps That Help Keep the Internet Secure (2017) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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Keeling Curve(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|1 comments
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Chatbot Arena(arena.lmsys.org)
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
kinda related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokklubben_World_Library (by brain pinged with the intersection of "Norway" and "books")
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Things that empirically work for me to sleep better: Mandatory: - separate duvets for me & my partner, so we don't wake each other up by turning - no screentime for ~1 hr before falling asleep - going to bed and read a book for tha
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
It is! Thanks! I see there's also a 2022 remake, uh.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
https://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/ put 5000€/month, Klasse 1, Berlin. Netto = 3094,05 €. That's 38,11%. 42% is not that far.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
HN, can you help me find a game I played in the early 2000s? It was a browser game. You had a grid (pretty small), and components to put in like conveyor belts. Each level had a winning condition, of course increasingly complex. The goal of
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Most of them are great but the absolute essentials are (imo): Spirited Away, Totoro, Princess Mononoke.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
"samurai" movies: - Seven Samurai - Rashomon - Ran - Throne of Blood - Kagemusha non-samurai: - High and Low - Ikiru I would say that the essentials are Seven Samurai, High and Low, Rashomon.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
In the games Link talks. We just don't hear him.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
For the first entry in the franchise they might want to go on with more recognizable characters/settings.
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
One can hope the film is 1/10th as good as this fanmade short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMQfaG6lo8
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Dress codes are a thing, you know. And paying to get into places where you couldn't get otherwise (by "vibes" only) is enough to tell you're out of place. Elon Musk tried to enter Berghain and was refused; Kanye West tri
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Document: The Symbolism Survey (2011)(theparisreview.org)
2 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
Clubs turning people away is a feature, not a bug. It's a moderation problem, and if you don't have the right "vibes" you don't get in. It's arbitrary? Yes. Prone to false positives? Yes. Does it work? Also yes
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
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by pallas_athena 3y ago
This has been the /fit/ sticky basically forever, and it's always a great read: https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
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Now and Then – Single by the Beatles(open.spotify.com)
1 points by pallas_athena 3y ago|0 comments

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